Underground.

Experimental theatre often fails because of a lack of story and character arcs, not so Underground, which stakes itself in different territory. In a word: brilliant.
Reminiscent of ABC3's The Tribe, the underground attracts all the people society wants to forget: gang members, sexual fetishists, paranoids, schizophrenics, political agitators, alcoholics, drug addicts, homosexuals, depressives, nationalists and suicides.
After a haunting dialogue-free opening scene that lasts for several minutes, Depressed Man (Adam Cirillo) kicks off the 15 monologues that form the structure. In each, director Paulo Castro evokes performances from all 13 actors that punch the emotional hot-buttons.
Any one of them can be picked out and praised, including Tom St Jack as Ex Con, who brings gentleness to an otherwise violent character, Kate Cheel as the Junky, whose portrayal of a chronic drug addict on a high is unsettling, and Hjalmer Svenna, who is chilling as the only truly evil character, Clockwork Orange.
Ben Galbraith's sets are unexpected and the set change one I've never seen in sixteen years of reviewing.
Another compelling monologue from Cirillo delivers the climax and the play keeps the sense of the story continuing as the cast take their bows.
Daniel G Taylor

Photo: L-R: Sam Calleja as Drunk, Michael Lemmer as Skinhead, Rebecca Calandro as Schizophrenic